In many parts of the world, collaborative watershed management has become a common approach for place-based water resource governance. This study examined four local-scale collaborative watershed planning efforts that developed Watershed Management Plans under Washington State’s Watershed Planning Act of 1998. These efforts ...

Urban forest management plans (UFMPs) are developed by many communities in order to provide a common vision for urban forest health and sustainability, establish goals, and coordinate actions toward achieving them. This multiple-case study used document analysis and semi-structured interviews with staff in six cities to ...

The global conservation of intact forest ecosystems has been recognized as an important goal due to the many benefits they provide to people and biodiversity conservation. Despite their importance however, intact forest ecosystems continue to be cut and degraded globally at an unsustainable level. To improve the policies and ...